> Without federation, we end up having to choose between:

> Centralizing into huge profit-oriented websites, where we're powerless

> Hosting our code on a small website where we're in control and freedom but isolated from the community

Yes, yes, yes, yes!!!! This would be a huge boost for everyone. I'm sure I'm not alone in disliking github, but begrudgingly using it quite a lot[0] because realistically, the alternatives create barriers to entry for a lot of people.

I think this will take a long time to catch on, but hopefully in several years time, the point where all the world's open source projects were beholden to a single tech giant will seem like a strange footnote.

[0] I've shifted a lot of projects to codeberg, but still mirror them all to github.